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‘To Make the Archives Sing’: Old Jewish Argentinian songs recorded for the first time
Argentine Jewish musicologists Silvia Glocer and Yasmin Garfunkel are on a mission to preserve and share pieces of Argentina’s Jewish musical heritage with songs that have never been recorded or whose recordings have been lost.
A group of carpenters in Germany is erecting a medieval utopia using only 9th-century tools
Archeologists and craftspeople are building a village and monastery following, for the first time, the only blueprint that survived the early Middle Ages — a medieval plan for a utopian community sketched on calfskin.
The history of enslavement at Boston’s Freedom Trail sites is beginning to be told
Boston is a cradle of American history, and 4 million people a year visit the historic churches, graveyards and parks that make up the Freedom Trail to learn more about the country’s origins. But rarely do they hear the underbelly of that story: that slavery touched nearly every aspect of the society and the economy of Massachusetts during that period of time. But that is now changing.